In honor of its special anniversary, BuzzFeed spoke with the voice of Belle, Paige O'Hara, and the lead animator for Belle, Mark Henn. We also attended the film's San Diego Comic-Con panel to get as many delightful details about the movie as we could.

3.To get into character, Robby Benson — the voice of Beast — would request that all of the lights in the recording studio be turned off. The only light you could see was the one illuminating the script in front of him.

As Mark Henn said, "Those kind of shots are notorious for being expensive. [Also], if you look at the end of Sleeping Beauty, you’ll see a very similar situation where all the peripheral characters are largely held, because all you’re focusing on are the main characters… In this one, it’s the same idea, we’re just focused on Belle and the prince dancing and we don’t really worry about [the others].”

6.Apparently Lumière is one of the only characters with a French accent because, well, Jerry Orbach just wanted to have one.

“There’s a scene where he basically lets her go ... and she starts to walk away, but she goes back to touch his face," said Henn. "There’s a lot of moments like that that were important for me as the animator to get in there.”

11.The first version of “Be Our Guest” was sung to Belle’s father, not Belle.

"That’s where she falls in love with him," said O'Hara. "You know, the little bird thing, and the seeds and the first time he [shows] his big smile? It shows such vulnerability. Then you have me reacting and touching him and then running around and hiding behind the tree.”

“The film was shown to all of the New York critics partly still storyboarded and [not] fully animated, and we were all very trepidatious as to how they were going to respond by not seeing the finished product," said O'Hara. "They started applauding after every song and then stood up for 10 minutes at the end. That’s when we all knew it was a classic. ...That was a very special night.”